I'm torn between your reaction ("neo-classical") and Vandermolen's ("powerful and brooding"), though leaning towards Jeffrey's. In any case, I enjoyed it; an attractive piece of music (in the sense that it pulled me in) that fits my mood this evening.

Sarge

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the phone rings and somebody says,"hey, they made a movie aboutMahler, you ought to go see it.he was as f*cked-up as you are." --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Ghost of Baron Scarpia

I'm torn between your reaction ("neo-classical") and Vandermolen's ("powerful and brooding"), though leaning towards Jeffrey's. In any case, I enjoyed it; an attractive piece of music (in the sense that it pulled me in) that fits my mood this evening.

Sarge

I can't say I didn't enjoy it, but I got the feeling it left a lot on the table. That bit with the french horns in the middle movement was the best part.

I have this recording somewhere. It’s been quite some time since I’ve listened to any of Hahn’s music. I know our friend, Rafael (ritter), likes Hahn’s music, so it’d be nice to know what works he likes and perhaps suggestions on what would be a good work to ease into this composer’s sound-world?

Sorry I haven’t replied earlier, but I’m away for business in Germany.

Can’t elaborate now, but you’ll find some if my thoughts on Hahn (as well as those of other fellow GMGers who enjoy his music) here.

I’m particularly fond of the Piano Quartet No. 3 (there’s not any other piano quarters by Hahn Nos. 1 & 2 being string quartets). This CD is recommendable IMHO:

I'm torn between your reaction ("neo-classical") and Vandermolen's ("powerful and brooding"), though leaning towards Jeffrey's. In any case, I enjoyed it; an attractive piece of music (in the sense that it pulled me in) that fits my mood this evening.

Sarge

Am pleased that you enjoyed it Sarge.I love the opening which, according to Wiren's wife, reminded her of a storm approaching.

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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

So far, solid craftmanship in the late Romantic (post Brahms, pre Bruckner) tradition. Suites were composed (in order of the CD, which is the reverse of the listing on the cover) 1931-35, 1916-21, and 1882.

Devastating symphony, Karl. Great stuff! It seems the older I get, the more I prefer the Soviet performances of Shostakovich compared to the Western ones. My best recollection is that Kondrashin smoked this symphony. Rozhdestvensky is also very fine. Of the Westerners, Haitink is still tough to beat in The Year 1905.

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The first has been a firm favourite for many years. The 6th is quite the "Lone Ranger(*)" among Nielsen’s symphonies, because of its resolutely different cast, ideas and instrumentation (foretelling Vaughan Williams 8 ?), but also because it brings to mind associations with child plays.

I had to stop the Szymanowski. I love his chamber, choral, orchestral music, and the opera King Roger, but his works for solo piano have been hugely disappointing for me as all the pieces I’ve heard seem like pianistic effects with no kind of narrative being told and there’s just no heart in the music, IMHO.

FauréString Quartet in E minor, Op. 121Quatuor Ebène

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“I regard it as my moral duty to write about the war, about the horrors that befell mankind in our century.” - Mieczysław Weinberg